How to Uninstall or Reinstall InDesign CC
Adobe keeps fine-tuning the Creative Cloud app. One recent change that you may have overlooked is the addition of a small gear icon when you hover over a single app in the Apps section of the panel.
When you click on the gear, a drop-down menu appears that provides the option to Uninstall the application. From there, you can choose to keep or remove the app’s preferences.
If you aren’t running the Creative Cloud app, you can uninstall InDesign CC manually. On a Mac, go to the Applications folder, locate the Adobe InDesign CC 2014 folder, and double-clicking on the “Uninstall Adobe InDesign CC 2014” file. On a Windows computer, go to Control Panel > Programs to uninstall InDesign.
Once you’ve uninstalled an app, the app icon will appear in the “Find New Apps” section at the bottom of the Apps list in the Creative Cloud app.
BONUS TIP: You can launch any program in Creative Cloud by clicking on its icon in the list of apps in the Creative Cloud app.
Although – if uninstalling and reinstalling is causing issues with how InDesign operates I’d recommend the clean uninstall https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/cs5-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html
Nice, particularly the ability to retain or remove settings! Creative Cloud keeps getting better and better.
Now if Adobe would just add a well-done chapter/end-of-book endnote feature to InDesign my life would be almost perfect. I’m going to spend many hours this week turning the footnotes in a 300-page science book into fake end-of-chapter notes.
Let me turn your week into seconds *waves magic wand*
https://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/foot_to_endnote.html
Although – if you export to RTF and open in Word then you can use the Endnote feature there and copy and paste them into InDesign.
This script will allow you convert InDesign files to RTF in a batch making it easier with multiple files.
https://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/batch_convert.html
Harry Potter and his wand have nothing to yours. Thanks. I’d not thought of exporting to Word. I was dreading literally hundreds of cut-and-pastes.
I hate Word, but as Churchill said of the pact that he made with Stalin after Hitler invaded the USSR:
“If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.”
https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/churchills-deal-with-the-devil/
So I guess I can make use of Word.
Thanks for sharing I have adobe much like the product. This article was very useful.
I have a somewhat related question: Is it necessary to first uninstall CS6 in order to co-install CS5 and/or CS5.5?
Shmuel: It should work fine, but I have heard of some problems where installing an earlier version overwrites some newer support files, which could cause problems with CS6. Nothing wrong with trying though; if CS6 stops working, uninstall it and reinstall.
Very good article! Although I have a question – if I’m not using the creative cloud app is it possible to uninstall and then reinstall Indesign? I’m having problems launching the application but I don’t want to uninstall it if there’s no way of reinstalling it without Creative Cloud.
Help please!
I have been using CS5 on a Mac for years but now Indesign has stopped working. It stopped when I installed Maverick and is still broken now with Sierra. Photoshop, Acrobat Pro and Illustrator work well, but when I launch Indesign, it starts to load the extensions and then crashes.
I tried to re-install the app from my DVD distribution but it’s an upgrade licence and it tells me it can’t find a suitable licence to upgrade, listing apps from CS4 backwards. My CS3 was deleted after the upgrade and so if I uninstall the app now and then try to upgrade, I’m scared it will not find anything.
Tried to download the app and re-install it. But when unpacked the dmg and launched the installer, it tells me to Eject the Disk before continuing and when I do that the whole thing disappears of course and I’m back to square one. A stupid loop bug!
Any ideas would be much appreciated.
Hello, I have a trial of inDesign, but cannot open it, because of one inappropriate change of a file I have made. Is it possible to reinstall it so that I would have again everything as it should be?
Can anyone help me on how to retain the InDesign previous version.
I am using Creative cloud licensed package. The April update is not compatible with the project i am working on.
I want to remove the april 2017 update to be removed.
Very good info. Lucky me I discovered your website by chance (stumbleupon).
I have saved as a favorite for later!
Hmmm…this describes uninstall, but not reinstall…